169. (11) A wife continually thinks about her husband's disposition towards her, with a view to joining him to her. This goes along with what was explained above, namely, that a desire to unite her husband to her is constant and continual in a wife, but inconstant and intermittent in a husband. See what was said there.* It follows from this that a wife thinks continually about her husband's disposition towards her with a view to joining him to her. To be sure, a wife's thinking about her husband is interrupted by the domestic concerns which are under her care, but still it remains in the affection of her love; and in women, this affection does not become detached from their thoughts as it does in men. However, I am relating these things as they were told to me. See the two narrative accounts which come from seven wives sitting in a rose garden, which I have included at the end of one of the chapters later on.** * No. 160. ** See nos. 293 and 294.